Faux Fishtail Braid | Easy Braid Hairstyles

February 17, 2013

Today’s video features CGH#1 filming her very first tutorial!

If you are like me and my girls, you love fishtail braids… but fishtails can take “soooo looooong” to style! We have shown you before how to create fake fishtail braids, but this technique is so easy and super fast!

My twins love this style because it’s so fast and easy, but looks so much like a fishtail that sometimes people cannot even tell a difference!

CGH #1 wanted to show all of you this braid because it is a morning go-to style when you are in a hurry because it can be done in “2 minutes or less”!

Items Needed: Brush, 1 small hair elastic, hairspray {if desired}.

Time Requirement: 1-2 minutes

Skill Level: Very Easy

Step-by-Step Instructions:

Begin by sweeping the hair over to one side and over the shoulder {your hair can be curly or straight to begin with… either one looks great}…

Take you thumb and forefinger and push them through the back of your hair to the front of the hair…

Then, using those two fingers… grab the bottom of the ponytail and flip it through the hole created by your fingers…

Make sure and hold the hair securely after the first flip, so that the twist generated by the flip does not unravel {This one can easily come undone if you don’t hold it tight. Also, don’t worry if the flip is down away from your head a bit}…

If you feel that the flip is down too low simply reinsert your thumb and forefinger again through the hair {make sure you don’t go through the exact same spot!} and pull the bottom of the ponytail through once more {you want the new flip to be slightly off from the original one}…

Give the hair a slight tug downward to help straighten out any excess bumps or thickness in flips {you will notice that once you have created a flip or two, your hair will likely hold its shape and often won’t even come undone if you let go}…

Continue down the ponytail, adding as many flips as you wish by using the same method as above. {Please make sure each time you are instering your fingers through the ponytail, that you do so in a slightly different spot. This help the hair hold, and creates the fishtail braid-like look.

When you run out of hair, secure the the bottom with an elastic.

Feel free to loosen any pieces or tug on the edges of the fishtail to create a messier more romantic look.

Also, we present to you our four favorite names for our new family puppy… from the over 16,000 fan suggestions you left in our last video. Our four favorites are Chewy {from Chewbacca in Star Wars}, Thor {because this little guy is so tough}, Mousse {play on words for a tough Moose and the mousse foam used in hair, and Braidy {play on words for Brady, the boy’s name, and “Braid”y, since we are huge fans of braids!

For the next week, are allowing our fans to vote for their favorite from among those four names, and we will announce the new puppy’s name in our next video! Be sure to comment on YouTube below the video with your vote!

Enjoy!

If you liked this hairstyle, please do feel free to share! Happy Hairdoing!

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Hi! I love your website! I really wish that I could actually use some of the hairstyles. Unfortunately, I have very short curly hair. Anyway, I really like this hairstyle, and am trying to figure out how to do it on my mom. My vote is Braidy.

i love this hairstyle i tried it and what i found is that you can create something like a pattern when you go through the parts in a right left rythm it looks sooooo much like the alladin kinda hairstyle love it

What do you do to keep the hair from getting knotted? I did the fake fishtail for my daughter. When I tried to get it out a few minutes later, when I decided that it didn’t look right with her day old hair, it was knotted and I couldn’t get it loose without really working on it.

Braids/Brady or mousse/moose because he has such cute and cool colored hair and because you guys are the royalty of hair! He is so cute! I hope he hasn’t gotten into too much trouble yet I have a silly puppy too. Have fun with him!!!

I just wanted to congratulate this girl on her first video! I don’t want to ramble about how much I like all your hairstyles and ideas you put out here (or how much I envy your thick hair, for that matter), but a huge thumbs up for CGH1, she didn’t “ooh”-ed or “uuuhm”-ed once! YouTube is full of people who don’t know how to speak on camera and she definitely isn’t one of them!

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